Ou Thursday last we Recd the inclosed Letter, by which you'll understand, that all our Expectations, as to M* Murray are at an End, you can't. immagine how the Disappointment affects us, and willbe attended with the Consequences of losing some part of our Congregation by their Joining the Dissenters, as they have provided themselves with a Gentleman who is much admired, And as we areata Loss how to proceed farther for the speedy provision of a Missionary , We make, bold to Crave your

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Advice how to act. Last Fall when M* Brown was in New York The Revd Dt Auchmuthy told him in Case of a Disappointment with Mt Murray, that he donbted not but that (with your Approbation) he could procure us a Worthy Gentleman. We have the pleasure to inform you that we Waited on the Governour when last here and Received his subscription money, as also the sum of £3 5s from Coll! Morris. We are informed that M* Motfat will be up next Week to go on with the Church. We are with the Greatest Respect Sir Your most Obt & Humble Servants Martruew Lyne. Joun SHEE. THomas ARNOLD.

Jw. Brown. P. S.--Pray Excuse haste.

[Enclosure.]

& Reading 31 January 1769 ir

1 was favoured witha Joint Letter from you, Messrs Shee, Brown & Curry dated 24 Inst. But never Received the other you mention of Octr last, or woud not have failed so far in Duty & Kespect as not to have answered it immediately. Jn consequence of some Letters that passed betwixt Sir William Johnson & the Revd Dr Smith of Philad# I wrote the Society in January last for leave to Remove to Schenectady, & accordingly obtained their Consent Summer last: But hearing nothing in the Interim from the People as I expected from what Dt Smith wrote Sr William when I applied the Society, I was obliged to drop all farther thoughts of that Mission, & Signified to the Society in September last, that, as matters thus stood, they shoud not postpone the Settlement of iton my account.